Zines, Community, & These Fucking Lefty Liberals - Hakim Bey - Babyfish Interview 1994
Zines, Community, & These Fucking Lefty Liberals from interview in Boulder, July 1991 Originally published in Babyfish #6 (1994) ON THE ZINE SCENE: What’s good about that is the dichotomy between producer and consumer gets erased. Everybody who gets a zine tends to be a zine producer themselves. Did you ever see [Ivan Stang’s Church of the Subgenius’] High Weirdness by Mail ? Well, that was the wrong idea, because, for example, my little Association for Ontological Anarchy got listed in that, and it was listed in a section where basically what Stang said was ‘all these people are crazy, and if you send them an SASE, they’ll stuff it full of rants and send it back for nothing.’ So I’ve got all these fucking ‘Bob’-ies writing to me all the time with SASEs like form letters. ‘Dear Hakim, I’m very interested in your theories, could you please fill this SASE?’ And it’s fucking Stang’s fault, you know, these suckoff types. That’s not the way you play the game. These people are trying
